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Gilded Age Second Term
769 wordsDiscuss Politics in the Gilded Age. Include major political events and issues, and the roles of the "bloody shirt, " corruption, patronage, and reform movements. The term Gilded Age was named for a Mark Twain book. It meant covered with gold, and was applied to this period as a whole. This was a period of corruption in sordid politics. The Republicans and Democrats didn't really have strong opposing beliefs during this period. The Republicans supported high tariffs and sound money. The Democrats...
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The Lighter Side Of Figurative Art
814 wordsSome works might make viewers laugh out loud; others may provoke a smile while still others will probably induce no more than an un exhibited amusement, (SJMA The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, 1). Susan Landauer says this in regards to the latest exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art. The show offers a wide range of pieces from the technically proficient to the texturally interesting; all had a lighthearted quality. I found Joe Bot by Clayton Bailey and Untitled by Joan Brown to be two pa...
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Low Income Families Uniform Policies
1,530 wordsCliques are an obvious part of every school across the nation. Whether the words, jock, preppie, skater, or goodie-goodie, are brought to mind, almost everyone thinks of their high school and how distinguished the groups were back then. Most schools probably did not have many noticeable effects from the different cliques there, but some schools show it more than others do. Cliques are a major problem for some junior and high schools across the nation, because of all the fighting and discriminati...
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Good Man Is Hard Man Is Hard To Find
752 wordsLet's take a look at "A Good Man Is hard to Find." O'Conner really puts the reader in the middle class mode and trough's a little religion at us. In this I mean that she really took us to a important part of her mind and writing. One mite say that she lets the Devil come out in her own little way. In reading " A Good Man is Hard to Find" O'Conner puts me in a setting of a lower middle class family with a domineering mother, grandmother and a whinny mother-in-law. I tend to believe that O'Conner ...
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Elizabethan Age Upper Class
553 wordsThe Audience of the Shakespearean Theater During the Elizabethan Age there were different social classes. What you wore depended upon the social class to which you belonged. It was easy to distinguish the classes by the way people would dress for the theater, and also where they sat to watch the performance. The lower class, also called peasants, were poorer people. Most were merchants or servants. A peasant man would wear a tunic or shirt, and breeches of some kind. He would also wear a laced-u...
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Ian Moore Left Wanted To Be The Man Dylan
645 wordsWhen I was in eighth grade, I first heard Bob Dylan on the radio. While randomly switching stations, I came across Like A Rolling Stone playing loud and clear. Instantly, I was a fan. I began to collect everything I could. My father, seeing my new found interest, decided it would be the fatherly thing to do to support me. So for my fifteenth birthday, he bought me two tickets to see Bob Dylan in concert when he came through Austin. I couldnt believe it. I was so excited to go, I had forgotten th...
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People Who Live Household Chores
968 wordsFinding a Way Out Doing chores is one of the least favorite things for anybody. People who live alone really have no choice but to do their chores by themselves, however, people who live with someone such as a roommate have a little bit of an edge in the situation. There is a way in which you can get chores such as taking out trash, dishes, cooking, and laundry, to be done for you by your roommate. Lazy people not only want to put off doing chores by making excuses, being manipulative, and prete...
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Central Park Three Hours
978 wordsNever Trust A Man Who Wears Sunglasses At Night Vlad was dressed in his usual outfit of black denim jeans, black silk shirt and sunglasses even though it was 12: 00 am, well after dark. He had one thought on his mind, make the meeting on time. As he walked, he recalled the circumstances leading up to his midnight stroll. He had been contacted in the usual way. When he woke up that morning, he had seen a yellow chalk mark across the road on an adjacent building. It would seem someone had need of ...
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American Dream T Shirt
881 wordsPete is the older brother of Donald, and works in real estate, where he earns a fairly large sum of money. He cares for two beautiful daughters, and enjoys sailing on a nice sunny day on the ocean which he sees every morning from his bedroom window. He drives to work in his brand new luxury car with the window open, the wind blowing through his hair, smiling with delight at the people whom he calls his friends. Pete has everything going for him, and some might even describe him as a man who fulf...
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Piece Of Paper Physical Characteristics
871 wordsOne afternoon I was sitting at a study table at the library quietly working on my Survey of World Religion homework. All of a sudden another college student slammed his books on to the table. After he placed his books loudly upon the table, he threw down his book bag on to the floor next to the chair. I glanced up at him with a look of disturbance upon my face. He left as quickly as he came, just to return again. I continued working on my homework until he blessed me with his present. The very f...
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Arrested Bar Year
1,053 wordsIf there is anything glorious or romantic about being a cop I certainly do not know what it is. My experience as a law enforcement officer lasted only a few years, but in that time I nearly burned myself out to a level of superior cynicism. For me, enforcing laws was like being trapped in the chaotic middle of a sociological chamber of horrors. Coping with such a high level of emotional disenchantment impacted me drastically and threatened to chisel my psyche down to a dark mute point. The respo...
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Pulled My Arm Close Pulled My Arm Doug
836 wordsThe Day in the Life of A Drug Addict I awoke to the smell of an old house, the lights were off and the house was cold and damp. Doug was nudging me saying "Wake-up! I got us a wake-up... get out of bed!" He was wide awake and holding a sixteenth of cocaine in his hand. My stomach started churring as I got up and ran to the restroom. He had woken me up many days like this but today Doug really had the dope. He enjoyed waking me up and making me think he had some After I threw up, I washed my face...
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Cleveland Ohio Twenty Minutes
1,539 wordsThe players, including myself, are veiled behind the platform. My heart begins pounding, as you would wake from a branch tapping into your window on a stormy night. Waiting for all the right cues, I deeply anticipate the rising of the red drapes so I can begin my quest. Yet I still feel overwhelmed by the charge of intensity running through me, easily seen by the bullets of sweat that line my forehead, starting their trickle to my already dampened cheeks. The time seemed to take on a fast pace. ...
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Junior High School Dressed High School Dressed Began
616 wordsThe norm I am breaking is the dress code acceptance for males and females. While males usually dress more masculine, women chose to dress more feminine. I took a visit to my previous junior high school dressed in some red high heels shoes, a sexy bright red skirt, black tube-top shirt, red lipstick, green contacts, a bra, huge gold loop earrings, and red finger nail polish on. On a busy one o' clock Tuesday evening at a small Orville Wright Middle School campus, I was ready to enter my old junio...
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Young Women Three Men
1,214 wordsRape in Chengdu Xiao Kim was very late coming back from the Young Women's Club. In Chengdu, in 1957, deep in the heart of a China that was becoming more industrial than rural, it was still safe to walk the streets at any hour, and so the fourteen-year-old felt little fear as she wandered along the sidewalk. Of course, Xiao Kim should have felt at least a little fear. After all, curfew had been thirty minutes before, and even in safe Chengdu there were strict regulations about not being out after...
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Are We Free To Make Our Own Choices
1,618 wordsAre We Free to Make Our Own Choices? Pre-destination can often bring up the question as to whether we as humans control our own actions. Are we free to make our own choices, or is everything we do pre-determined by a supernatural being of some sort? Is it safe to say that we are responsible for our own choices? Do we own a free will that allows us to choose our life path, or are our actions pre-determined, making our exertions useless? In a society that believes in a God who is in control of our...
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Public School System Wearing Uniforms
1,203 wordsWhat do policemen, basketball players and even hotel chefs have in common? They all wear uniforms which help identify their profession and positions. For many parents, teachers and students, the widely debated issue of mandatory uniforms in schools has caused concerns. Those who oppose school uniforms believe that fundamental rights to express oneself are violated. On the other hand, parents and school officials firmly believe that it is beneficial to the school and the students. Uniforms in sch...
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Parents And Teachers Basic Principles
603 words(FATHER): Make your bed and clean your room, all right? (BILLY): All right. I'll do it later. Just don't nag me about it. (FATHER): Billy, did you finish everything? (BILLY): NO! I don't want to do it! (muttering under the breath) Do it yourself. Doesn't this sound familiar? Billy illustrates a disturbing trend popular in the youth of today's society: disrespecting elders. The main victims of this unfortunate situation are the parents and teachers. This problem was first blamed on adolescence; b...
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Back And Forth Business Man
1,114 wordsThrough the steam of my coffee I could see a miniature set of shiny red shoes swinging back and forth underneath the counter at the diner. A little girl had been sitting atop the red stool since I had arrived, just sitting watching the cook flip pancakes all morning long with a mature sense of fascination. Up and down, and up and down, over and over again, the batter always formed into delicious solid creations, some with blueberries, some with chocolate, some just plain and simple. The cook spo...
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Tie Dye Shirt Slicked Back My Hair Bar
715 wordsThe words on the sign that hung outside the bar gleamed: Black Jacks Bar. After I jumped off my five-speed mountain bicycle and took off my helmet, I confidently walked up to the radiant building. I performed a last minute check of my appearance in an outside mirror. I slicked back my hair and tucked my tie-dye shirt inside of my tight blue jeans. Looking so sexy, I was ready to accomplish my goal for the night: to be flirtatious, and secure a ladys telephone number in hopes of getting a date. M...
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